Women in the Ramkathas

Dr. Atreyi Biswas (b.1941) is a senior faculty member of Satyawati Co-educational College, Delhi University. Born in a family of academics, she did her postgraduate studies at Agra College and School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Her earlier works, Political History of the Hunas in India (1973) and Prachin Bharat ka Rajnitik, Samajik aur Sanskritik Itihas (Political, Social and Cultural History of Ancient India, 1982) were very well received. Several of her research papers have been published in Indian and foreign academic journals.